Fatigue, loss of the joy of solitude, the company of fools, the press of the crowd and the pairs of opposites: all these discomforts you endure as if they were blessings.

With mind detached, you quietly work for the welfare of the world. How awesome is the Buddha-nature of the Buddha!

You ate poor food, sometimes you went hungry. You walked rough paths and slept on the ground trampled hard by the hooves of cattle.

Though you are the Master, in order to serve others you endured insults and adapted your clothes and words, out of love for those whom you taught.

You are the Lord, but you never lord it over others. All may use you as a servant to obtain the help they need.

No matter who provoked you, where or how, never did you transgress your own path of fair conduct.

You help those who wish you ill more than most men help those who wish them well.

To an enemy intent on evil you are a friend intent on good. To one who gleefully seeks faults you respond by seeking virtues.

Those who sought to give you poison and fire you approached with compassion and nectar.

You conquered revilers with patience, the malicious with blessings, slanderers with truth and the cruel with kindness.

You reversed in an instant the manifold natures and evil destinies of those depraved from beginningless time.

"He, the Blessed One, is indeed the Noble Lord, the Perfectly Enlightened One;He is impeccable in conduct and understanding, the Serene One, the Knower of the Worlds;He trains perfectly those who wish to be trained; he is Teacher of gods and men; he is Awake and Holy. "--------------------------------------------"The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One, Apparent here and now, timeless, encouraging investigation, Leading to liberation, to be experienced individually by the wise. "

Well worded and significant, true and sweet, deep or plain or both together, condensed or copious. Hearing such words of yours, would not even an opponent be convinced that you were all-knowing?

Generally your speech was wholly sweet but when necessary it would be otherwise. But either way, every word was well spoken because it always achieved its purpose.

Soft or hard or possessing both qualities, all your words when distilled had but one taste.

Ah! How pure, perfect and excellent your actions are, that you employed these jewel-like words in such a way.

From your mouth pleasing to the eye, drop words pleasing to the ear, like nectar from the moon.

Your sayings are like a spring shower settling the dust of passions, like a garuda killing the serpent of hatred.

They are like the sun again and again dispelling the darkness of ignorance, like Sakra's scepter splitting the mountain of pride.

Your speech is excellent in three ways: based on fact it is truthful, because its motive is pure it causes no confusion, and being relevant it is easily understood.

When first heard your words excite the mind but when their meaning is pondered over they wash away all ignorance and passion.

They go to the hearts of all. While comforting the grieving they alarm the heedless and rouse those preoccupied with pleasures.

Truly your words are for all: they delight the wise, strengthen those of middling intelligence and illuminate the minds of the dull.

Your sayings coax men from false views and draw them towards Nirvana. They remove faults and rain down virtues.

Your knowledge embraces all things, your mindfulness is ever present and thus what you say will always come to pass.

Because you never speak at the wrong time or in the wrong place or towards the wrong person, your words, like energy rightly applied, are never wasted.

"He, the Blessed One, is indeed the Noble Lord, the Perfectly Enlightened One;He is impeccable in conduct and understanding, the Serene One, the Knower of the Worlds;He trains perfectly those who wish to be trained; he is Teacher of gods and men; he is Awake and Holy. "--------------------------------------------"The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One, Apparent here and now, timeless, encouraging investigation, Leading to liberation, to be experienced individually by the wise. "

Through your skill in teaching the rough became gentle, the mean became generous and the cruel became kind.

A Nanda became serene, a Manastabdha humble, an Angulimala compassionate. Who would not be amazed?

Delighted with the flavor of your teaching, many wise ones left their beds of gold to sleep on beds of straw.

Because you knew time and temperaments, sometimes you remained silent when questioned, sometimes you spoke first, and at other times you aroused their interest and then spoke.

Having first scrubbed clean the garment of the mind with talk on generosity and other virtues, you then applied the dye of the Dharma.

There is no expedient or opportunity which you did not use in order to rescue this pitiful world from the fearful abyss of samsara.

To train people in different situations, according to their state of mind, many and various were the words and deeds you used.

They were pure and friendly, honored and praised, saluted and acclaimed by both gods and men.

Difficult it is to speak well and then do good. But for you, O Truthful One, both these things come easily.

By your purity alone you could have cleansed the whole universe. In the triple world no one is to be found like you.

You rose up for the welfare of all beings lost in the beginningless and fearful straits of becoming.

"He, the Blessed One, is indeed the Noble Lord, the Perfectly Enlightened One;He is impeccable in conduct and understanding, the Serene One, the Knower of the Worlds;He trains perfectly those who wish to be trained; he is Teacher of gods and men; he is Awake and Holy. "--------------------------------------------"The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One, Apparent here and now, timeless, encouraging investigation, Leading to liberation, to be experienced individually by the wise. "

"He, the Blessed One, is indeed the Noble Lord, the Perfectly Enlightened One;He is impeccable in conduct and understanding, the Serene One, the Knower of the Worlds;He trains perfectly those who wish to be trained; he is Teacher of gods and men; he is Awake and Holy. "--------------------------------------------"The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One, Apparent here and now, timeless, encouraging investigation, Leading to liberation, to be experienced individually by the wise. "